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Let me confess that I was a Martin Andanar basher before because I saw him as totally incompetent. But then I learned that there are many Yellow loyalists in the PCOO that are making life difficult for him and that he is handling twelve government units and agencies with a minuscule small budget.

It was after knowing that plus the fact that President Rody Duterte totally trusts him did my disdain for him turned to sympathy.

Anyone who runs a business knows that the CEO of any organization that lacks funding will have a lot of challenges running that organization.

The PNA Boo-boo Scandal
As it turned out and as expected, the employees who screwed-up four times and embarrassed President Rody Duterte and Sec. Martin Andanar big-time were old employees of the Philippine News Agency or PNA.

This was revealed in an interview with PCOO Secretary Martin Andanar by Angelo Palmones and Henry Uri of DZEH/ACS Balita last August 15, 2017.

The painful part is that these three regular employees of the PNA can't just be fired because they are protected by the Civil Service Code.

According to this interview, one employee has worked of the PNA for 30 years, the other for 15 years, and the last one for 10 years. Seriously, how can they make four embarrassing mistakes in less than a year?

The four Philippine News Agency boo-boos were:

May 15, PNA was accused of spreading fake news when it reported that DILG Asec. Epimaco Densing III said 95 nations were "convinced" there are no extrajudicial killings (EJKs) in the Philippines.

May 27, PNA used a photo from the Vietnam war to accompany a report on the Marawi siege.

August 6. PNA was accused of being China's mouthpiece when it cut and pasted news from the China’s state-run news agency Xinhua, tagged the decision won by the Philippines in July 2016 at the Permanent Court of Arbitration as an “ill-founded award.”

August 11, 2017, in a story titled ‘DOLE issues pay rules for 2018 holidays’ posted on their website, PNA used the logo of the Dole Philippines Inc. instead of the Department of Labor and Employment's logo.

Find out more about these PNA employees in this is a very interesting interview.